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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (14464)	3/19/2008 8:28:46 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Your post is most unwelcome..yes, this liberal knows all about what you say..this liberal worked in the trenches during the 80s/90s when crack was willingly allowed into the ghetto by the Reagan DEA..I have no use for your kind of patronizing, demeaning words..my last post to you. Edit: 80s when it was allowed and 90s to see the full blown effect..

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (14464)	3/19/2008 8:31:07 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And guess what; the Bush White House repeatedly ignored warnings about impending attacks .

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (14464)	3/19/2008 8:32:59 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

It's about time liberals take responsiblity for their own lives and problems without making lunatic accusations against others for their own personal failings. Clean up your own house, dude, before talking to us. You can start with Fallwell, Patterson and Coulter and work your way down from there. And you might work on the competency of your leaders so we don't get into more messes like Iraq. Jeremiah Wright is an insane, hate-filled loudmouth and anyone who listens to and believes his rantings can consider themselves members of that club as well. Wright is part of a minority that has dealt with over 200 years of discrimination. What's Coulter's excuse? Obama's campaign has been hobbled by racist hatemongers on the Left. No more than by righties spreading lies........we've seen the emails making the rounds. You people have no scruples. And while we are trading complaints, what's your excuse for voting for Bush twice?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (14464)	3/20/2008 11:09:35 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Ann this is the Obama thread where we applaud those who stick to the issues. It is not a hate mongering thread and we want to elevate our discussion on this thread. It is not a liberal vs. conservative thread. Nor is this something that adds to the flames of racism. If this agrees with your philosophy then feel free to post here. Or else, my dear young lady I think you are "looking for the Van Kampen Lighthouse". This lighthouse is not that.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (14464)	3/21/2008 12:26:10 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Editorial from Dallas Morning News ============================================ Editorial: The Obama speech Obama's speech was one for the history books 08:26 AM CDT on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Has any major U.S. politician in modern times ever given a speech about race in America as unflinching, human and ultimately hopeful as the one Barack Obama delivered yesterday? Whether or not the speech satisfies critics of Mr. Obama's close relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, this remarkable address was one for the history books. And it was a speech only Barack Obama, with his complicated racial background and cool charisma, could have given. His challenge was enormous: to explain why he has spent two decades worshipping in a black church whose pastor – a man Mr. Obama calls his spiritual father – at times denounces the very country that Mr. Obama seeks to lead. Many political observers had written the Obama campaign off. After yesterday's magnificent address, we beg to differ. The Obama speech was effective for several key reasons: He decried Mr. Wright's offensive remarks but said they do not represent the totality of the man or his church. In any case, said Mr. Obama, these folks are like family to him, and you don't disown your family. He portrayed his mentor as a figure of tragic pity: a man whose generation suffered real humiliation in segregated America, the memory of which "distorts reality." He emphasized that his former pastor erred in assuming that America had not changed and could not change – even though the presidential candidacy of a member of his own congregation refutes that belief. "But what we know – what we have seen – is that America can change," Mr. Obama said. "That is the true genius of this nation." Mr. Obama explained that black anger has a historic context and cannot be denied. He also explained that white resentment has a context and cannot be denied, either. Both sides have legitimate claims, he said, but they err in magnifying grievances. We can continue to nurse our anger privately this election year and remain in this "racial stalemate" – or we can refuse it and come together to solve our problems. Throughout the speech, Mr. Obama portrayed America's racial history as fraught with tragedy and moral complexity but insisted that nothing can erase the fact that all Americans are, in some sense, family. That our destinies and our freedoms are, as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. taught, inextricably bound. The true genius of the Obama speech was both in its frankness about the nation's racial problems and in its insistence that America is not defined by the evil of its past, but rather by its ability to repent and to be redeemed by our efforts to renew the bright promises of our nation's founding. It was possibly the most important major speech on race in America since Dr. King died, and it probably saved Mr. Obama's candidacy. If, in the end, Barack Obama does not win the nomination, let it never be said that he did not serve his country. dallasnews.com